PoF AR-15 Patriot Bronze Sculpture

Patriot Ordnance Factory have produced a range of merchandise featuring 18th century Minuteman armed with AR-15 rifles. Along with t-shirts, posters and beef jerky, they also have a limited edition bronze sculpture. The sculptures are being made by David Paul Venell. The price $5,100.

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Samuel Suggs

The face is horrifying other than that I like the whole concept. I have one of their posters already but I am not this commited to the concept still on the road othwise I would post picture of the ads they run in the back of shotgun news

Samuel Suggs

Eh screw it iPhone camera will work!

Samuel Suggs

Yeah it’s a bit hamfisted with the premise but cool otherwise

jamezb

Love it. We need symbols to remind the last couple generations who the
minutemen WERE… they seem to have conveniently vanished from textbooks
over the last 25 years, in much the same way minuteman statues have
vanished from courthouse lawns across the
country during the same period. Someone is trying to erase the memory
of the armed citizen that won our freedom…and I think they are
convinced “the fix is in”…

As 21st century gun owners, we could do far worse than to re-adopt the
minuteman as a very visible historical symbol of who we are, where we
came from, and what we stand for. The minuteman was THE symbol of
patriotism, and he’s quietly been shelved. We need to take him off that
shelf. If they choose to attack him openly, they openly attack patriotism..the
forefathers…the flag…

…and I realize that a certain number of them do that anyway, but in reality
it’s a loud minority. There is only so much of that anti-America crap
that the silent majority – “middle of the road” America, – is willing to
put up with. It is entirely possible that if we quietly provide enough
rope, our adversaries might accidentally hang themselves.
If they truly think the fix is in,….. lets break it.

this guy is a good artist but he trys to do things his medium isnt conducive to ala this thing gah the nightmares. if you have som horrible need to see the rest of this statue its right here http://dpvstudios.com/category/sculptures/

jamezb

Bronze is a great medium, but from personal experience I can tell you that sculpting little faces in microcrystalline wax in “tabletop scale” is a real bitch. (pardon my misogynous French). You too often end up with little aliens or monsters. Now for larger scale, it becomes much easier to make realistic expressive faces. Not making excuses or disagreeing
…just putting in a few cents.

Samuel Suggs

yeh thats what i was getting at that is bye his medium I meant “tabletop scale bronze sculptural art”

Jacqueshacques

I love my guns, I love my history, and I love my art, and man I’ll be danged if this doesn’t just make a hash of all three. Minutemen and ARs? Sorry, but in my book, just not two great tastes that taste great together. Rather spend $5000 on guns and ammo than what looks like a resin cast of an alternate history book cover.

Ripley

Why would you charge if you have a scoped rifle? Not to mention that flag should be cleaned and mended according to the flag code.

Anonymoose

Because they there were no metallic cartridges in 1775.

Samuel Suggs

um its a variable power optic you can just move it to lowest maganafication and rock and roll not that “charging” is genrally a good idea

Samuel Suggs

Also flag code only applies to the most recent iteration of a given type of flag!

JumpIf NotZero

That’s fine and all… But POF has a LOT of work to do on their rifles before if recommend they branch out into accessories.

Samuel Suggs

yeah they also need to make this stautue picatinny rail mountable you know battle field motivation and all that ballance be damned I want a little patriot on my gun

KP

I love it. I’m always saying that if a young Eugene Stoner presented General George Washington with an AR-15, the General would have asked Stoner if he accepted Continental Notes.

Samuel Suggs

You’re always saying that? Really? Why? I mean it’s vaguely amusing but how often does that come up?

KP

It’s more than amusing; it’s an educated guess as to what may have occurred. How often do you hear, “the Founding Fathers could never have imagined these weapons of war” or something similar? Each time that comes up, this comes up.

Lance

NICE art.

az9mm

I could buy 2 POF rifles and still have a little left over for the same price as the statue

Political Sheepdog

The point that the AR-15 is todays Musket is very simple and easy to understand even for the Political Left. I would love to have one of these statues but not at $5K.